A Primer of Materia Medica for Practitioners of Homœopathy
Kali Chloricum kali-chl.
General action
The chlorate, most poisonous of all the salts of Potash, lowers the temperature, depresses and paralyses the heart, irritates the mucous membranes, producing gangrenous ulcerations from the mouth to the anus, violent, acute nephritis, and profound prostration.
Face and Mouth
Gangrenous ulceration in the mouth, (exactly similar to cancrum oris), with hard swelling, profound prostration, albuminuria, hæmaturia, dyspnœa, etc.
Throat
Swelling of the submaxillary glands.
Internal throat red and œdematous, swallowing difficult, with rawness, dryness and scraping.
Stool
Blood and mucus, violent cutting pains, great prostration.
Urinary organs
Acute nephritis.
Urine bloody, scanty, albuminous.
Heart and Pulse
Heart's action very feeble, weak, soft pulse.
Coldness in the præcordial region.
Skin
General cyanotic hue, especially of the lips and extremities.
Fever
Tendency to coldness, especially with cold limbs.